Dining room table

[Joos]

1,200 x 2,400mm Dining room table made from Oregon Pine - eight seats

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Detail of end grain on top of legs

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Side view of legs

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Apology for keep on modifying this post - I'm new on FOG and learning!...  [laughing]

 

[Zacharytanner]

Very nice

 

[Sparktrician]

I'm fascinated by the built-up leg and the square pegs canted 45°.  Well done, Joos!!! 

 

[peter halle]

I like the simple lines and those details too.  I would venture a guess that here we call the wood Douglas Fir and there it is called Oregon Pine.  I took the liberty of making a couple of adjustments to bring out color and details:

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Hope you don't mind.

Peter

 

[Stephen B]

I like the simple lines and those details too.  I would venture a guess that here we call the wood Douglas Fir and there it is called Oregon Pine.  I took the liberty of making a couple of adjustments to bring out color and details:

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Hope you don't mind.

Peter

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Yes Peter, it is called Oregon Pine down here too. Used to be easy to get here once. Now mostly only available at specialist wood merchants and often not of the quality exhibited in that used for this table. Fortunately I have some recycled examples awaiting an as yet unknown project.

Congratulations Joos. I trust this table will witness many joyous family events.

 

[Nvcraftsman]

Great work, I love the end grain pattern on the tops of the table legs. Well done

 

[wow]

I love the lines on that! I also like the detail of the square plugs on the end. You should be proud of that - very nice job!

 

[NYC Tiny Shop]

Very nice! Some very cool ideas!

 

[VW mick]

Like that too ..really cool design

Might be me but can't look at a flat surface without thinking 20mm holes at 96mm centers

 

[jacko9]

Great design and execution, love the look of the pine and the color is outstanding.  Very nice move stacking the legs together like that.

Jack

 

[stvrowe]

I like the way you did the legs.  It is not often you see end grain on the top.  Well done!

 

[Joos]

Thank you [thanks] everyone for the kind words and compliments and yes, I'm indeed proud of this table which I built for friends moving into their new home at the end of May.

Some comments:

Peter, I really do not mind you enhancing the colour of the table. Oregon Pine / Douglas Fir gets darker as time goes by and in a few years it will be the same colour as your doctored picture in any event  [smile]

I was always under the impression that Oregon Pine (as opposed to Douglas Fir) would be the common name in the US since the lumber originated from the state of Oregon?

Concerning the end grain and copper squares:

The legs are in fact hollow (ex 22 x 132mm) and the end grain is just 13mm thick glued to a 22mm Supawood base below.  Much easier this way and one can select from and use all off-cuts to create the end grain patterns. This detail also allows the South African Pine subframe (which is behind the side panels with the copper squares canted 45º) to pass through the legs to form a unit. The legs and 35mm thick outer beams is likewise a unit and the 22mm top drops in between the outer beams.

The 16 x 16 x 2mm copper squares are  purely decorative and do not cover screws. My initail design was to have these copper squares also on the drop-in top, three rows - a row at each end and one in the middle (= 18 Nº) but I was overruled by my two designer daughters! They did not want squares at all - in their opnion these squares would have stolen  the limelight from the main feature of the table which is the end grain legs. Fortunately we reached a compromise...

 

[ceddy]

Nice!